No longer a pushover (Noelle and Cedric)

Donovan waved his arms and said, "Xenia, how could this be your fault? Frank and Lucas forced you to lie. It's their problem!"

Frank and Lucas felt wronged.

Lucas couldn't help but interject. "Donovan, it's my fault Noelle left. I hadn't been treating her well and pushed her around frequently. She left because she was hurt."

He slowly realized how unacceptable his behavior had been and wanted to make up to Noelle. Glancing at Noelle, he said, "It's my fault. I won't behave like that in the future."

Lucas swore on it! He didn't want to sever ties with Noelle. She was his only sister.

Upon hearing what Lucas had to say, she smirked mockingly and said, "A late apology doesn't suffice. Get out of my way. I want to leave!"

However, the guards at the door blocked her and didn't move an inch.

Donovan picked up a call. He said, "Noelle, you can't leave just yet. The Ministry of Education is sending people over to investigate your cheating behavior. You better play nice, if not even the Liddells won't be able to save you."

Noelle was confused. Hadn't they conducted their investigation already? Bruce told her to go home and wait for further updates? Why had they come again? Something felt off.

Xenia was ecstatic to hear the news. She simpered, "Noelle, just own up to it. Perhaps they won't punish you as harshly if you do so."

Frank glared at her and said, "What are you going on about? Noelle didn't cheat!"

What was up with Xenia? Why was she slandering Noelle?

Xenia immediately said pitifully, "Frank, I'm doing so for Noelle's sake."

Dominic immediately stood up for her. He glared at Frank and said, "Xenia has done nothing wrong. You've been pampering Noelle too much. This is the result."

Frank was frustrated. Looking at Xenia, who was cowered behind Dominic, as though everyone had wronged her, he finally got a taste for how Noelle had been feeling in the past.

Of course Noelle would be devastated and fixated on leaving the Liddell family.

Frank narrowed his eyes at Xenia and said, "Before the investigation is concluded, you better not make such misleading statements."

"Frank, I..."

"Shut it. I don't want to hear your excuse."

Frank was in a horrible mood.

Xenia could only close her mouth. Thankfully, Donovan was on her side and they had to obey him.

As Noelle watched Frank stand up for her, she found him hilarious.noveldrama

Perhaps he finally realized that Xenia was different from how she pretended to be. However, Noelle didn't care about that anymore.

She pulled her phone out and tried to text Cedric.

"What are you doing?"

Donovan grabbed Noelle's phone and glanced at it. "Texting him won't help. He can't make it here."

Noelle said coldly, "I've told you that this has nothing to do with him."

"Wait for the investigators to come over. After that, you can negotiate with me if you're still feeling so brave!"

Donovan slipped her phone into his pocket. "If your cheating is put into your record, you'll be banned from the examination for five years. You'll have to live off the Liddells for the rest of your life. Did you really think that Cedric would provide for a useless woman like you for the rest of your life?"

Noelle chuckled coldly and shot back, "I'm useless? Without me, Lucas' team can't even qualify for the finals Frank wouldn't have been able to settle the problem with the firewall in his project if not for me. I'm so fucking sick of how you all pretend to be high-and-mighty!"